Zot

A decentralized communication protocol and platform for federated social networking, enabling secure and private content sharing across distributed servers.

Zot publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Blobs API, Catalog API, Manifests API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Decentralized, Federation, Privacy, and Social Network.

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18.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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1 APIs

Decentralized Federation Privacy Social Network

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 18.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 7.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 15

Access Clarity 4.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 2.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Zot Blobs API

The Blobs API from Zot — 3 operation(s) for blobs.

Zot Catalog API

The Catalog API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for catalog.

Zot Manifests API

The Manifests API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for manifests.

Zot Oci API

The Oci API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for oci.

Zot Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification API

The Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for open container initiative distribution specification.

Zot Referrers API

The Referrers API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for referrers.

Zot Tags API

The Tags API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for tags.

Zot API

The Zot API from Zot — 6 operation(s) for zot.

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Open Collections 10

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs Manifests API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs Oci API

OPEN COLLECTION

Blobs Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs Referrers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs Tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification Blobs Zot API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Zot Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Zot Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Zot Finops

FINOPS

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Zot Agentic Access

25 operations · 13 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

25 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zot
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zot.png
name: Zot
description: A decentralized communication protocol and platform for federated social networking, enabling secure and private
  content sharing across distributed servers.
type: Index
url: https://zotlabs.org
tags:
- Decentralized
- Federation
- Privacy
- Social Network
tags_raw:
- Decentralized
- Federation
- Privacy
- Social Networking
created: '2025'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/zot-agentic-access.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/project-zot
apis:
- aid: zot:zot-blobs-api
  name: Zot Blobs API
  description: The Blobs API from Zot — 3 operation(s) for blobs.
  tags:
  - Blobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-blobs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-catalog-api
  name: Zot Catalog API
  description: The Catalog API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for catalog.
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-catalog-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-manifests-api
  name: Zot Manifests API
  description: The Manifests API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for manifests.
  tags:
  - Manifests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-manifests-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-oci-api
  name: Zot Oci API
  description: The Oci API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for oci.
  tags:
  - OCI
  tags_raw:
  - Oci
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-oci-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-open-container-initiative-distribution-specification-api
  name: Zot Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification API
  description: The Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for open container initiative
    distribution specification.
  tags:
  - Open Container Initiative Distribution Specification
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-open-container-initiative-distribution-specification-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-referrers-api
  name: Zot Referrers API
  description: The Referrers API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for referrers.
  tags:
  - Referrers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-referrers-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-tags-api
  name: Zot Tags API
  description: The Tags API from Zot — 1 operation(s) for tags.
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-tags-api-openapi.yml
- aid: zot:zot-zot-api
  name: Zot API
  description: The Zot API from Zot — 6 operation(s) for zot.
  tags:
  - Zot
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zot-zot-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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